How To Prioritise Quickly And Intuitively If you’re in a situation where prioritisation is straightforward and you have a single decisive product owner, you probably need to read no further. If, however, prioritisation is difficult in your situation – maybe because you have several products or product owners with conflicting priorities, or maybe because your requirements can be complex and benefits rather intangible – this is for you. In this case, prioritisation can be difficult and priorities are not always immediately obvious. This simple approach might help you to prioritise more quickly and intuitively…
How to prep your Mac for Lion Computerworld - Now that Lion has attained "golden master" status, it may be just days before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7. Only Apple knows the release date -- the latest rumors have it as July 6, maybe July 14 -- but you can prep your Mac now to make the upgrade go faster and more smoothly. Make sure your Mac can handle Lion Lion's system requirements are slightly different from Snow Leopard's, so you need to verify that your Mac can run the new operating system. Select "About This Mac" from the Apple menu, and look at the "Processor" and "Memory" items in the resulting pop-up.
Agile Project Management: Can This Methodology Improve Your Processes? Is Agile just another project management fad? Or can it actually enhance how you work or handle a process? Big companies use the Agile methodology to run “fast and efficient projects.” Facebook uses it. Google and Microsoft and Twitter also use it. It’s being taught in online MBA degree programs as well. Agile CultureCon 2012: Call for Speakers! Let’s Hack Culture! found on pinterest via 1000 cultural A few days ago I posted about CultureCon (Philly 9/12 and Boston 9/14), an upcoming event hosted by Agile Boston that’s focused on culture analysis, design and implementation in the workplace. The objective of the conference is to “bring to more popular awareness how culture is the gating factor in satisfaction, productivity and learning at work.” The premise is that agile and self-management principles are essentially a culture hack – meaning that if a group of people decide they’re willing to align around a set of values, principles, practices and processes, they can upgrade themselves to a high-functioning learning organization that continually adapts and upgrades itself. Next I could say some kind of sentence about how “in today’s fast-paced world, we can’t afford NOT to” …. etc etc. You get it.
iCloud: What's in, what's out for MobileMe users News June 27, 2011 06:46 AM ET Computerworld - Apple won't officially debut iCloud for months -- September is the bet by most -- but last week the company revealed more information about what the online sync and storage service will and won't include. The Critical Path by Derek Huether Regardless of where I coach or teach, there is always someone who approaches me and says something like, “Agile is great for software projects but what about projects that aren’t software related?” When asked the question, I usually give examples like a U.S. Marine fire team or air crew or a home construction site. A View to Agile Requirements The patterns, workshop design guidelines, and collaboration techniques I describe in Requirements by Collaboration are agnostic to product or software development method. When I wrote the book, agile methods were beginning to gain in popularity. Fellow agilists tell me they find the book useful when they design and facilitate workshops for their agile teams.